memcached Users Group in Japan
So memcached is used to scale and improve the performance of almost every large websites that you love. This is not an exception for Japan either. For example, mixi, the largest social networking website in Japan rely greatly on memcached. I also know handful of other large websites here in Japan that utilizes memcached, though I will keep them unnamed for now.
Considering the amount of questions that flow through the memcached mailing list and IRC, I haven't seen many (if not any) questions being thrown by a Japanese developer. Why? IMHO there are three possible reasons behind this:
- Developers in Japan don't care about memcached.
- There is a user community in Japan where they exchange information.
- Developers aren't comfortable throwing a question in English.
The first possibility can't be true since Brian Aker and myself overloaded the registration for a memcached talk at MySQL in Tokyo within 24 hours of its announcement. The second reason can't be true since up until now there was no memcached community in Japan.
Therefore the third possibility seemed like the likely one to me. Though mind you, speaking from experience, developers in Japan can read English fine. People just don't feel comfortable when it comes to verbal communication.
Anyway, the important thing is that there was no reason to _not_ start a memcached community in Japan, since what makes an open source software great is the community. I asked what Brad thought of this thought and since he thought it was a good idea as well, I launched the group last friday :-)
The group is maintained using Google Groups:
I've also created an official summary for the group here:
Interested in how things are going? Well... we have now over 80 registered members within the first week of its launch! I really can't wait to throw an event full of web performance geeks in Japan :D
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